Chapter 1983: Understanding the Situation
It was around dawn.
Qin Chen and Lin Songyun returned to the palace bedroom.
They were completely unaware of what had just occurred in their bedroom.
Moreover, the traces of fighting and blood on the ground had already been cleaned up.
As if nothing had happened earlier.
However, when Qin Chen stepped into the bedroom, his footsteps abruptly halted.
Lin Songyun looked at him, "What’s the matter?"
Qin Chen sniffed carefully, and immediately his expression became serious, "Something’s not right, I smell blood."
He found the spot where Hea Zhangxuan had coughed up blood earlier.
He lifted up that piece of the floorboard directly.
Although that part of the floor had been cleaned very thoroughly, there was still blood seeped under the floor.
So now when Qin Chen lifted the board, the blood could be seen clearly.
"This is fresh blood, and it’s human blood."
Lin Songyun’s expression also turned grave.
Qin Chen said, "Someone had come into this bedroom when we were away."
Lin Songyun speculated, "Could it be someone from the Blood Spirit Pavilion? After all, the commotion we caused when we descended upon the Jingyue Dynasty yesterday was quite significant, perhaps the Blood Spirit Pavilion sent assassins to kill us."
"But they didn’t expect us to not be in the bedroom at all."
Qin Chen said, "This is a possibility, but things aren’t that simple. If it were true, they’d leave after failing to find us, so why is there still blood?"
"This suggests that a fight likely occurred in this bedroom beforehand."
"However, if it was a fight, there couldn’t have been no damage."
"But look."
Qin Chen pointed to the furniture around them.
All the furniture was intact, as if new, and every item on them was left untouched, arranged just so.
Everything seemed ordinary, but precisely because of this, Qin Chen sensed something unusual.
"Indeed."
Lin Songyun nodded in agreement.
Qin Chen said, "We need to be more cautious."
Lin Songyun asked, "Should we notify the Jingyue Royal Family to provide us with information?"
Qin Chen shook his head, "This matter might be related to the Jingyue Royal Family, we must not act rashly, let’s pretend we know nothing for now."
"This task is not simple."
The sun shone upon the earth.
Qin Chen and the others opened the bedroom door and walked out.
The servants and maids outside looked at Qin Chen and Lin Songyun with astonishment.
Clearly, they had no idea how Qin Chen and Lin Songyun had returned to the bedroom, since they evidently weren’t there last night.
This detail was also noticed by Qin Chen.
"They obviously knew we weren’t in the bedroom last night, so they were so surprised to see us emerging from it."
"Therefore, something must have happened in our bedroom last night for them to know we weren’t there."
Qin Chen whispered.
Lin Songyun proposed, "Let’s go straight to the Blood Spirit Pavilion and eliminate it, it might be an internal matter within the Jingyue Royal Family that we needn’t involve ourselves with."
Qin Chen nods, agreeing, he certainly had no intention of helping the Jingyue Royal Family resolve internal issues.
"Did the two Saints sleep well last night?"
The Jingyue Emperor asked with a smile, showing respect.
Qin Chen smiled, "Very well, there’s no time to lose, we’ll head to the Blood Spirit Pavilion at once, and need to know the specific strength of the Blood Spirit Pavilion."
The Jingyue Emperor said, "Why don’t you have breakfast first?"
Qin Chen directly refused, "No, we need to know now."
The events of the previous night had already raised Qin Chen’s suspicions about the Jingyue Royal Family.
Qin Chen even suspected that the grand welcome banquet yesterday was just a diversion.
No matter what the Jingyue Emperor was thinking, he only did what he should do.
If the Jingyue Emperor dared to provoke him, he would destroy this Jingyue Dynasty.
Seeing Qin Chen’s firm stance, the Jingyue Emperor naturally couldn’t refuse further and said, "Then please follow me, we’ll discuss this in another place."
Following the Jingyue Emperor.
Qin Chen and Lin Songyun entered the Jingyue Hall.
Empress Dowager Jingyue, Liuw Cheng, and Hea Zhangxuan were present there.
Among them, when Liuw Cheng and Hea Zhangxuan saw Qin Chen and Lin Songyun, their eyes flickered.
They still hadn’t figured out where Qin Chen and Lin Songyun went last night.
But for now, the two seemed unaware of what happened last night, which was good news for them.
The Jingyue Emperor said, "Liuw Cheng, report on the Blood Spirit Pavilion to the Saints."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Liuw Cheng nodded, then faced Qin Chen and Lin Songyun, "The Blood Spirit Pavilion is a force that has suddenly emerged within our Jingyue Dynasty recently."
"And its rise has been rather astonishing."
"We’ve dispatched our army and powerful beings multiple times to destroy the Blood Spirit Pavilion, but each time they counterattacked, making them more rampant and expanding their influence."
"Moreover, the disciples of the Blood Spirit Pavilion act with extreme ruthlessness and brutality. Roughly estimated, tens of millions of our Jingyue Dynasty citizens have become corpses at the hands of their disciples."
Qin Chen asked, "How much do you know about the strength of the Blood Spirit Pavilion?"
Liuw Cheng said, "I’ve personally fought with the strong ones of the Blood Spirit Pavilion, and I must say, they are very strong. Those in the Tongtian Realm don’t need mentioning."
"Among them, there are more than thirty in the Tribulation Transformation Realm."
"If it wasn’t for my good fortune at the time, I might have died at their hands."
Qin Chen’s brow furrowed instantly.
More than thirty in the Tribulation Transformation Realm?
Why would a power with more than thirty Tribulation Transformation Realm entities limit its sights to a small dynasty?
This is too abnormal!
"What is the strength of these more than thirty Tribulation Transformation Realm experts?" Qin Chen asked again.
Liuw Cheng said, "I don’t know that, altogether, to this day, we still have no real understanding of the full strength of the Blood Spirit Pavilion."
"Esteemed Saints! I implore you, please destroy the Blood Spirit Pavilion."
"Otherwise, the hundreds of millions of people in our Jingyue Dynasty will be doomed! As the Guardian Gods of the Jingyue Dynasty, we absolutely cannot allow this to happen!"
As Liuw Cheng spoke, his eyes reddened, seemingly filled with anger towards the Blood Spirit Pavilion.
Qin Chen said, "We will do our best."
For now, it sounds like this Blood Spirit Pavilion is indeed not easily dealt with.
However, Qin Chen and Lin Songyun are not to be trifled with either.
He looked at the Jingyue Emperor, "Send someone to guide us to the Blood Spirit Pavilion first. We’ll test their foundation and then plan accordingly."
"Rest assured, even if the two of us can’t eliminate the Blood Spirit Pavilion, we have the Saber Saint Cliff behind us, and the Blood Spirit Pavilion will certainly vanish from the Jingyue Dynasty."